I just recently got ahold of a copy (thanks to the wonders of ILL) of an article called The Porridge Debate: Grain, Nutrition, and Forgotten Food Preparation Techniques1. I had seen references to it in Sandor Katz’s Wild Fermentation, but hadn’t actually read the article. In it, the author discusses how changes in grain processing [...]
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The wonders of porridge
May 3, 2011
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Viking agriculture
May 8, 2010
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The kind of plowing rig pictured here From Horse Plowing From Horse Plowing represents the pinnacle of Viking agricultural technology. Such a setup, with horses (and horse collars) pulling a metal mould board plow, was just be introduced into parts of Denmark at the very end of what we traditionally think of as the Viking [...]
